Class Exercise: applying color theories and priciples on a fashion collection

Class Exercise: applying color theories and priciples on a fashion collection

color theories and priciples applied:
-Analogic Color Scheme

Limited Edition Christian Lacroix Evian Water

Limited Edition Christian Lacroix Evian Water

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colors in same hue

colors in same hue

















In the above pictures, the main color are in one hue , but in different intensity,and value.





Color scheme applied: Monochromatic color scheme
-use same hue but changes the brightness and saturation to achieve different shades and tints.

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2005 RTW

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2005 RTW







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Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Fall 2005 RTW

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Fall 2005 RTW







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Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2006 RTW

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2006 RTW


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Colors used in the collection:

Primary color was used:- red, yellow, blue, to make the design more colorful and eye catching

Analogous Color Scheme & Complimetary Color Scheme are used:

-Analogous Color Scheme, eg. red and orange
- Complimetary Color Scheme, eg. red and green

~> make the colthing more colorful and have contrast

In a season of print and femininity, Lacroix put together one of the most ravishingly individual looks to be found anywhere. Hair tied up in printed headscarves, his girls wore flowered dresses with contrasting slubby coats or jackets slung on top. They walked lightly, in Hessian ballet shoes, swinging straw bags, each decorated with a big satin bow with a chunk of diamanté in the center.

Monochromatic Color Scheme: - same hue ( green) but in different brightness, intensity and saturation

Monochromatic Color Scheme: - same hue (Sandy Brown) but in different brightness, intensity and saturation .

He found ways to play out all the experience of his nearly 20 years as a couturier: his taste for Spanish boleros, corseted bustiers, eighteenth-century brocades, bold African prints, flowing painterly chiffons.

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Fall 2006 RTW

olors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Fall 2006 RTW



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main colors used in the collection:








Monochromatic Color Scheme:- same hue(rosy brown), but changed brightness and saturation

Complimentary Color Scheme: - warm and cool color , eg. Doderblue and Orange

- effect~>look brighter






Analogous Scheme:- two colors are adjacent to each other on the color wheel,eg. red and violet

Primary color was used:- red, yellow, blue

Achromatic Scheme was used: -colorless,eg. black and gray

We can see that the distance Christian Lacroix is putting between his fantastic haute couture extravaganzas and his more accessible ready-to-wear line is now quite literally.That describes the divide between the old image Lacroix has been sitting with since the eighties—an honored place at the table of the Ladies Who Lunch—and the one he wants now: dancing on those tabletops with the It Girls with Legs.

He had worked hard to translate many of the touches of his couture here; witness the deep bands of jet-beaded Spanish embroidery in a bodice and the fur cap-sleeves set into an antiqued-gold brocade shift.

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2007 RTW

Colors used in Chriatian Lacriox's Collection- Spring 2007 RTW



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Color used in the collection:

Complimentary Color Scheme: - Red and Green ~> color contrast

Complimetary Color Scheme: - eg. pink , yellow, blue







Achrmatic Color Scheme: eg. Black, Gray and White~> Colorless

Lacroix had plenty of short organza bubbles and silver-sequin cocktail dresses, but so did lots of designers, and his, though unobjectionable enough, lacked the oomph of personality that gives the competitive edge these days.

A section of bubble-gum pink printed Western shirts and spangled cutaway bodysuits possibly referred less to Lacroix¿s Arlesian-in-Paris signatures than to Americana and Vegas showgirls.